Jeremiah 15:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּמִזְרֶ֖ה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ שִׁכַּ֤לְתִּי אִבַּ֙דְתִּי֙ אֶת־עַמִּ֔י מִדַּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם לוֹא־שָֽׁבוּ׃

Transliteration

wā-ʾezrēm with-mizreh in-šaʿărê hā-ʾāreṣ; šikkaltî ʾibbadtî ʾet-ʿammî, from-their-ways not-šābû.

Grammar Details

• *wā-ʾezrēm*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 1st common singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and I scattered them
• *mizreh*: noun common masculine singular - winnowing fork
• *šaʿărê*: noun common masculine plural construct - gates of
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: article + noun common feminine singular - the land/earth
• *šikkaltî*: piel perfect 1st common singular - I bereaved
• *ʾibbadtî*: piel perfect 1st common singular - I destroyed
• *ʾet-ʿammî*: direct object marker + noun common masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my people
• *šābû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they returned/repented

Word Meanings

• *wā-ʾezrēm*: and I scattered/winnowed/dispersed them
• *mizreh*: winnowing fork/fan/shovel
• *šaʿărê hā-ʾāreṣ*: gates of the land/entrances of the country
• *šikkaltî*: I bereaved/made childless/deprived of children
• *ʾibbadtî*: I destroyed/caused to perish
• *lōʾ-šābû*: they did not return/repent/turn back

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I have winnowed{H2219} them with a fan{H4214} in the gates{H8179} of the land;{H776} I have bereaved{H7921} [them] of children, I have destroyed{H6} my people;{H5971} they returned not from their ways.{H1870}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will fan{H2219}{(H8799)} them with a fan{H4214} in the gates{H8179} of the land{H776}; I will bereave{H7921}{(H8765)} them of children, I will destroy{H6}{(H8765)} my people{H5971}, since they return{H7725}{(H8804)} not from their ways{H1870}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I will scatre the abrode with the fanne on euery side of the londe: I will waist my people and destroye them, for they haue had no lust to turne from their owne wayes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I wil scatter them with the fanne in the gates of the earth I haue wasted, and destroyed my people, yet they would not returne from their wayes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I haue scattred them abrode with the fanne of euery side of the land, I haue wasted my people and destroyed them, yet they haue had no lust to turne from their owne wayes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved `them' of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 9:13 : 13 So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
• Isa 41:16 : 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.
• Jer 8:4-5 : 4 You shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do people fall and not get up? If they turn away, do they not return?’ 5 Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.
• Jer 51:2 : 2 I will send strangers against Babylon to scatter her and empty her land, for they will surround her on the day of calamity.
• Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.
• Hos 9:12-17 : 12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow. But Ephraim will lead their children out to be slaughtered. 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. 16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill their cherished offspring. 17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
• Amos 4:10-12 : 10 I sent plagues among you like those in Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. The stench of your camps rose into your nostrils, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 12 Therefore, this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
• Zech 1:4 : 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
• Ezek 24:25 : 25 As for you, son of man, on the day I take from them their stronghold—their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their souls, as well as their sons and daughters—
• Jer 4:11-12 : 11 At that time, it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A scorching wind from the barren heights of the desert blows toward the daughter of my people—not to winnow or cleanse. 12 A wind too strong for these will come from me; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.
• Deut 28:41 : 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.
• Deut 28:53-56 : 53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive. 55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.
• Deut 28:18 : 18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.
• Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.
• Jer 9:21 : 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.
• Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am about to profane my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.’